 world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness  Essays - Page 44by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 538 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ephraim Langdon Frothingham - 1864 - 490 pages
...always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after your own : but the great man is he, who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the... | |
 | Ephraim Langdon Frothingham - 1864 - 520 pages
...always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after your own : but the great man is he, who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the... | |
 | 1867 - 672 pages
...select a few characteristic examples. ' Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds.' ' The great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps, with perfect sweetness, the independence of solitude.' ' We grant that human life is mean, but how did we find out that it... | |
 | James Lee (M.A.) - 1867 - 506 pages
...think they know what is your duty better than you know it yourself. It is easy to live in the world after the world's opinion: it is easy in solitude to live after your own ; but the great man is he, who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the... | |
 | 1869 - 908 pages
...part of the world might subscribe it, without deviating from the strictest veracity. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but tho great man is ho who, in tho midst of the crowd, keeps tho independence of solitude. There are men... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 574 pages
...always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy...the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is,... | |
 | Charles John Plumptre - 1870 - 236 pages
...on the positive or absolute member, and the rising on the negative or relative. " It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy...great man is he, who in the midst of the crowd keeps the independence of solitude." Rule XX.—All sentences that are ironical in character should have... | |
 | M. S. Mitchell - 1871 - 422 pages
...descriptive or argumentative passages, generally requires a short pause after it; as, "It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy...solitude to live after our own ; but . . . the great i;11iii is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."... | |
 | 1873 - 806 pages
...are busily watching at one door, he comes in at another. Сохаштвяск.—It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion, it is easy in solitude to live after your own ; but the great man is he who, in the midst of a crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence... | |
 | E S. P - 1874 - 588 pages
...always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to look after your own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness... | |
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